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About the role
App delivery
Mobile developers turn product ideas into working apps that run well on phones and tablets. They build new features, fix bugs, and keep releases stable across iOS and Android. Typical work includes:
- Native apps in Swift or Kotlin
- Cross-platform apps with Flutter or React Native
- API integration, login flows, and notifications
- Store submission, updates, and maintenance
Core stack
A strong mobile engineer knows the app layer and the backend touchpoints around it. Clean architecture, state handling, offline support, and device-specific behavior matter just as much as the visual layer. Common tools include Xcode, Android Studio, Firebase, Git, and testing frameworks for unit, UI, and device testing.
When to bring one in
Companies hire a freelance mobile developer when a release is blocked, a product team lacks in-house app skills, or an existing app needs a focused rebuild. This also fits short projects such as adding a payment flow, improving performance, or modernizing an older codebase without changing the whole team. In Austria, this often works well for software firms, industrial companies, travel brands, and scale-ups that need flexible delivery and clear communication in English or German.
What good looks like
The best mobile developers write code that is easy to maintain and test. They understand app lifecycle issues, device fragmentation, permissions, onboarding, crash handling, and release management. They also know when to keep a feature native and when a shared codebase is the smarter choice.
Delivery outcomes
A freelance mobile developer should be able to take ownership of concrete outputs, not just tasks.
- Shipping new app features end to end
- Refactoring unstable screens or modules
- Connecting apps to backend services and third-party SDKs
- Preparing builds for App Store and Google Play
- Improving speed, stability, and user experience
Choosing the right profile
A strong mobile developer is more than a general software engineer with app experience. Look for real shipped products, clear opinions on architecture, and a calm approach to release problems. If the role is mainly visual, you may need a UI-focused front-end specialist; if it is mainly native app logic, choose someone who has worked deeply in the mobile codebase.
Meet FRATCH Mobile Developers
Stefan Dangubic
BI Consultant in Controlling
Last position:
BI Consultant in Controlling at Reutter GmbH
- Extraction, transformation, and cleansing of data from Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Creation of sales reports in Power BI
- Training employees in business intelligence
- Technologies: Power BI, SQL, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Daniel Schlager
Full-Stack Developer & AI Engineer
Last position:
AI Automation in E-Commerce at Looops
- AI automation roadmap for a D2C/B2B e-commerce company.
- Customer service bot with RAG over support tickets and product data, OCR pipeline for incoming invoices with writeback to Business Central, lead gen and posting automation.
- Deterministic n8n workflows with EU-hosted models.
- n8n, RAG / Mistral, Qwen/BGE embeddings / Business Central API, HubSpot, Shopify / Scaleway, S3 / Claude Code, OpenCode.
Daniel Schlager
Full-Stack Developer & AI Engineer
Last position:
AI Automation in E-Commerce at Looops
- AI automation roadmap for a D2C/B2B e-commerce company.
- Customer service bot with RAG over support tickets and product data, OCR pipeline for incoming invoices with writeback to Business Central, lead gen and posting automation.
- AI automation roadmap for a D2C/B2B e-commerce company.
- Customer service bot with RAG over support tickets and product data, OCR pipeline for incoming invoices with writeback to Business Central, lead gen and posting automation.
- Deterministic n8n workflows with EU-hosted models.
- n8n, RAG / Mistral, Qwen/BGE embeddings / Business Central API, HubSpot, Shopify / Scaleway, S3 / Claude Code, OpenCode.
- Deterministic n8n workflows with EU-hosted models.
- n8n, RAG / Mistral, Qwen/BGE embeddings / Business Central API, HubSpot, Shopify / Scaleway, S3 / Claude Code, OpenCode.
Stefan Kohl
Fullstack Developer (Freelancer)
Last position:
Fullstack Developer (Freelancer) at Sciuto Software GbR
- Implementing a real-time procedural 3D/AR eyelash configurator using Three.js and MediaPipe
- Building a full-stack web application with React.js and Python
- Consulting on app and web development
Stefan Kohl
Fullstack Developer (Freelancer)
Last position:
Fullstack Developer (Freelancer) at Sciuto Software GbR
- Implementing a real-time procedural 3D/AR eyelash configurator using Three.js and MediaPipe
- Building a full-stack web application with React.js and Python
- Consulting on app and web development
- Implementing a real-time procedural 3D/AR eyelash configurator using Three.js and MediaPipe
- Building a full-stack web application with React.js and Python
- Consulting on app and web development
Andreas Becher
Freelance iOS Developer
Last position:
Freelance iOS Developer at Self-employed
NFC – Project: Development of a prepaid app solution that retrieves already paid services (credit) via an NFC connection between smartphone and terminal
Technologies: REST, NFC, Swift Concurrency, Keychain
KURIER edition & Futurezone.at: Development of white-label apps in partnership with Technical Apps for k-digital Medien GmbH
Technologies: REST, In-App Purchase, Push Notifications, Analytics, OAuth
White-label app for sports associations and institutions: iOS client connected to backend, focusing on modularity, flexibility, and customizability
Technologies: Swift packages (Network, Core, Business Logic, Frontend), MVVM pattern, reactive programming (Combine)
Magenta Sport iOS app: OTT sports platform by Deutsche Telekom with SSO (OAuth), HLS video streaming, DRM protection
Video player framework: Integration of the Sportradar OTT process, licensing model, HLS streams, DRM, analytics, Chromecast, AirPlay, Picture in Picture, Apple TV; available as an XCFramework via CocoaPods; used in WRC, MagentaSport, NHL TV
Collaboration on other apps: DFB and DFB Fanclub; LAOLA1.at; LAOLA1.tv; RedBull Salzburg (formerly)
Andreas Becher
Freelance iOS Developer
Last position:
Freelance iOS Developer at Self-employed
NFC – Project: Development of a prepaid app solution that retrieves already paid services (credit) via an NFC connection between smartphone and terminal
Technologies: REST, NFC, Swift Concurrency, Keychain
KURIER edition & Futurezone.at: Development of white-label apps in partnership with Technical Apps for k-digital Medien GmbH
NFC – Project: Development of a prepaid app solution that retrieves already paid services (credit) via an NFC connection between smartphone and terminal
Technologies: REST, NFC, Swift Concurrency, Keychain
KURIER edition & Futurezone.at: Development of white-label apps in partnership with Technical Apps for k-digital Medien GmbH
Technologies: REST, In-App Purchase, Push Notifications, Analytics, OAuth
White-label app for sports associations and institutions: iOS client connected to backend, focusing on modularity, flexibility, and customizability
Technologies: Swift packages (Network, Core, Business Logic, Frontend), MVVM pattern, reactive programming (Combine)
Magenta Sport iOS app: OTT sports platform by Deutsche Telekom with SSO (OAuth), HLS video streaming, DRM protection
Video player framework: Integration of the Sportradar OTT process, licensing model, HLS streams, DRM, analytics, Chromecast, AirPlay, Picture in Picture, Apple TV; available as an XCFramework via CocoaPods; used in WRC, MagentaSport, NHL TV
Collaboration on other apps: DFB and DFB Fanclub; LAOLA1.at; LAOLA1.tv; RedBull Salzburg (formerly)
Technologies: REST, In-App Purchase, Push Notifications, Analytics, OAuth
White-label app for sports associations and institutions: iOS client connected to backend, focusing on modularity, flexibility, and customizability
Technologies: Swift packages (Network, Core, Business Logic, Frontend), MVVM pattern, reactive programming (Combine)
Magenta Sport iOS app: OTT sports platform by Deutsche Telekom with SSO (OAuth), HLS video streaming, DRM protection
Video player framework: Integration of the Sportradar OTT process, licensing model, HLS streams, DRM, analytics, Chromecast, AirPlay, Picture in Picture, Apple TV; available as an XCFramework via CocoaPods; used in WRC, MagentaSport, NHL TV
Collaboration on other apps: DFB and DFB Fanclub; LAOLA1.at; LAOLA1.tv; RedBull Salzburg (formerly)
Ben Rudhart
Senior iOS Developer
Last position:
Senior iOS Developer at tado° App
- Foundational work for new hardware series “tado° line X”
- Interview & onboard new iOS Engineers
- Reduce release time from 1 in 2 months to 1 per week
- Maintain and improve high user satisfaction: 4.6+ Stars
- Setup secure & encrypted Handshake with bluetooth device
- Reduce merge conflicts by setting up the project via tuist
- Convert monolithic codebase to Modules by leveraging SPM
- Use state of the art technology, like Codable & async/await
- Maintain & improve custom view accessibility
- Reduce tech debt
- Gradually convert to webviews while maintaining high quality
- Ship highly requested features like “dark mode”
- Increase unit test code coverage and rewrite parts of code base
Ben Rudhart
Senior iOS Developer
Last position:
Senior iOS Developer at tado° App
- Foundational work for new hardware series “tado° line X”
- Interview & onboard new iOS Engineers
- Reduce release time from 1 in 2 months to 1 per week
- Maintain and improve high user satisfaction: 4.6+ Stars
- Setup secure & encrypted Handshake with bluetooth device
- Reduce merge conflicts by setting up the project via tuist
- Foundational work for new hardware series “tado° line X”
- Interview & onboard new iOS Engineers
- Reduce release time from 1 in 2 months to 1 per week
- Maintain and improve high user satisfaction: 4.6+ Stars
- Setup secure & encrypted Handshake with bluetooth device
- Reduce merge conflicts by setting up the project via tuist
- Convert monolithic codebase to Modules by leveraging SPM
- Use state of the art technology, like Codable & async/await
- Maintain & improve custom view accessibility
- Reduce tech debt
- Gradually convert to webviews while maintaining high quality
- Ship highly requested features like “dark mode”
- Increase unit test code coverage and rewrite parts of code base
- Convert monolithic codebase to Modules by leveraging SPM
- Use state of the art technology, like Codable & async/await
- Maintain & improve custom view accessibility
- Reduce tech debt
- Gradually convert to webviews while maintaining high quality
- Ship highly requested features like “dark mode”
- Increase unit test code coverage and rewrite parts of code base
Florian Jurkic
Senior Android Consultant
Last position:
Senior Android Consultant at Bragi GmbH
- Working within a cross-functional team developing upgrades for in-app features
- Android app development since 2016
- App: Skull IQ & many more
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Mobile Developers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
18
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Marketing
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Education
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, Danish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Daily Rate Distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this role are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Average rates for Mobile Developers & Seniority distribution
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A mobile developer builds, improves, and maintains apps for iOS and Android. The work often includes feature development, bug fixes, API integration, push notifications, and release preparation. In many projects, the freelancer also helps with app store updates and technical cleanup.
Look for strong app architecture, solid knowledge of Swift or Kotlin, and practical experience with testing and release processes. A good mobile app developer also understands offline behavior, performance, device-specific issues, and backend integration. If the app is cross-platform, ask for direct experience with Flutter or React Native.
A mobile engineer makes sense when the need is project-based, urgent, or tied to a specific product phase. This is common for feature launches, app rescue work, migration projects, or temporary capacity gaps. A freelancer can start faster and focus on delivery without long onboarding.
A mobile developer works in native app environments and deals with mobile-specific constraints such as app stores, permissions, device differences, and offline use. A front-end developer usually focuses on web interfaces in the browser. Some professionals work in both areas, but the best choice depends on the target product.
It depends on the product, timeline, and long-term maintenance plan. A mobile developer with native skills is often the better choice for complex performance needs, deep device integration, or platform-specific user experience. Cross-platform expertise is useful when you want shared logic and faster delivery across both ecosystems.
Yes, remote collaboration is common for mobile projects, including for companies in Austria. The work usually runs well with shared tickets, code reviews, and regular check-ins. On-site time can still help during kick-off, workshops, or when the app depends on close work with product and design teams.
Ask for examples of shipped apps, not just code samples. A strong mobile application developer can explain architecture choices, testing strategy, store release handling, and how they dealt with bugs or performance issues. Good signs are clear communication, clean code structure, and practical decisions that fit the product.
A mobile programmer should deliver working app features, stable builds, and clear technical handover. Depending on the project, that may also include fixes for crashes, updated dependencies, store-ready releases, and documentation for future maintenance. The exact scope should be tied to measurable app outcomes.
The average hourly rate for Mobile Developers in Austria is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 760 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Mobile Developers in Austria, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 60% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as Mobile Developers in Austria have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Mobile Developers in Austria are German (100%), English (100%), and Danish (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Mobile Developers in Austria are Information Technology (83%), Manufacturing (67%), and Education (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Mobile Developers in Austria are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Marketing (50%).
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Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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